...smells like truth."
Posted on 02/11/2004 8:46:01 AM PST by aculeus
Hmmmm..... The good doctor has been doing news for the last few years? And doing a good enough job to be booted from NBC/PMSNBC? Arnot should feel honored; he sounds like a man of principle that got mixed up with a band of thieves.
BTW, did you catch this piece? The dissension in the ranks seems to be on the rise. Hope springs...
FGS
So much for the TRUTH. Instead they hire Deborah Norville to interview "celebrities".
Surly it can't possibly be affiliated with ABC in any way, shape or form.
Here check this out, for example.
From the site you linked, I lifted this:
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NEWS SUMMARY
President Bush's biggest problem right now is ____________ (noun).
He is still quite popular with the Republican base, but it would be nice of the economy would create, say, ____________ (number) jobs before he faces the voters.
Dan Bartlett's television appearances in the last few days make us think of a ____________ (barnyard or circus animal), but Scott McClellan's ____________ (adjective) daily briefing yesterday gave us ____________ (involuntary, violent action).
"Strong Leadership in Times of Change" is a fantastic campaign slogan because it ______________________________ (long, wonky but clever explanation).
BC04 spokesgal Nicole Devenish's position that the Bush campaign took their ad-like video off of the campaign Web site after NBC complained about the use of "Meet" footage because "it's important to have good relationships with the people who are going to cover us this year" would be best taken to heart by ____________________________ (Kerry staffer who should know better).
Sen. Kerry now has ____________ (big number, size depending on which network you trust) delegates, which is around 1/4 of the total he needs to ____________ (verb) the nomination.
The thing most Democrats say Kerry lacks in order to put himself in a position to beat George Bush is a ____________ (noun), while others think he requires a ____________ (adjectival noun or body part) transplant.
Lucky for him, he will have the ____________ (adjective) David Wade with him on the road to help figure all this out.
Although Dean and Edwards will continue their campaigns until ____________ (cliché), ____________ (number exceedingly close to 500) of the Gang of 500 will now turn their focus to the Bush-Kerry match-up.
But ____________ (member of Gang of 500) thinks that a candidate who chooses to stay in the race "after the lights have gone out" shares the logic of ____________ (favorite children's book character).
Bush-Kerry will make the archive of the Yale Daily News ____________ (adjective), and the Bumiller-Betts relationship ____________ (adjective).
Garry Trudeau, on the other hand, will now become ____________ (mysterious adjective).
General Wesley Clark's campaign can be best summed up as ____________ (song title). Sen. Kerry's campaign can be best summed up as ____________ (movie title).
Maureen Dowd will say that Kerry is a ____________ (brand of car). The discussions within the Kerry campaign about how much access to give MoDo to Sen. Kerry will be ________________________ (adjective) and ___________________ (more intense adjective).
When asked about his military service in the 1970s, President Bush has replied ____________ (adv.) that he was in ____________ (name of desirable place).
Democrats now think that the Administration has ____________ (verb) jobs to ____________ (name of desirable place).
The 1972 Alabama National Guard has moved ____________ (proper noun) to ____________ (violent verb).
John Edwards' ____________ (noun) has moved ____________ (plural noun) to ____________ (soothing verb).
President Bush will tell his staff that ____________ (noun or man's name) would have to ____________ (verb) ____________ (adverb/pronoun) before he would agree to let the Commission on Presidential Debates dictate the terms and number of fall debates -- in fact, he will agree to just ____________ (very low prime number).
As for Kerry, to prepare for the debates, he will study tapes of Al Gore debating Bush, and resolve never to ____________ (verb other than "sigh").
The Bush-Kerry battle will also be fought over the airwaves, with both candidates making appearances on unconventional television show, with the President guest-staring on ____________ (WB or UPN program), and Kerry making a cameo on ____________ (second-rate reality show).
The press will begin to speculate about things such as the Kerry summer White House in ____________ (exotic place), and which one of them will somehow get into print the next off-the-record Bill Clinton dinner party talk about Kerry, with an emphasis on Kerry's ____________ (noun).
For Kerry, the campaign will be all about ____________ (noun), ____________ (noun), and Bob Shrum's ____________ (noun).
For Bush, it will be all about ____________ (noun), ____________ (noun), and Maverick Media's ____________ (adjective) ____________ (noun).
Bob Shrum has written ____________ (number) speeches in the last year. His best was delivered by ____________ (name of presidential, gubernatorial, or senatorial candidate).
Shrum, Devine, Donilon, would ____________ (adverb) beat the Glover Park Group at "It's Academic," but the folks at GPG would ____________ (verb) Shrum, Devine, Donilon at __________________ (intense competitive physical activity).
Both Bush and Kerry will trot out cross-party supporters -- besides Zell Miller -- with Kerry bagging ____________ (prominent left-leaning Republican) and the President winning over the support of ____________ (more prominent centrist Democrat).
"90210" is to ____________ (name of current primetime "drama") as 527s are to ____________ (noun).
Rep. Kucinich is so ____________! (name of favorite soap star).
Karl Rove is so ____________! (name of adult cartoon character).
The ____________ (adjective) Republican convention will be held in ____________ (adjective) New York, where the press will focus on _______________ (colorful metaphor). The ____________ (adjective) convention will be held in ____________ (adjective) Boston, where the press will focus on _____________________ (noun).
The Yankees will ____________ (verb) this season's World Series.
Sen. Kerry's eventual running mate will say the Red Sox and the Yankees are ____________ (plural noun /expletive).
On election day voters will base their decisions on ____________ (noun) and discount ____________, ____________ and ____________ (nouns).
Voters will come to see that the trait the two men running for President share above all else is ____________ (shocking noun).
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ABC et al couldn't have had anything to do with this.
It's wayyyy too honest but what's even worse, it gives away the Liberal-Socialist quisling-sychophant's *formula*.
Sorry, but *something* here smells to high Heaven.
...any thoughts?
Yea, & I also *think* I read where they alluded to the fact they can prove it, too.
That's the key to pulling the plug on the Liberal-Socialist LIARS who've taken over the nation's major dailies, kiddies.
We've all sensed for years who was it that'd be reading these Liberal-Socialist's pap & their monstrously distorted editorializing masquerading as "news", while concurrently asking ourselves why in the world would the advertisers go along with that kind of crap?
Reason is, these rags have been [grossly] inflating their circ numbers.
Numbers that're supposedly representative of a daily's reach & influence who then charge accordingly.
Sounds like in one case, the jig's up; moreover, I so would like to believe this lawsuit might result in newspaper's across the nation being *audited* from coast-to-coast & baorder-to-boarder; because, I'll bet either (or both) of you any $$ figure you want that this is not an isolated instance.
It's the rule.
I'll tell ya, guys.
It sure would explain the nuts & bolts behind the scam financing these insane Liberal-Socialists while keeping their capitalist stockholders happy, wouldn't it?
Ahhhhhh.
Smell it!!
Smell it??
I *love* that smell in the morning.
...smells like truth.
The full exchange went like this:
COURIC: Mik, we only have a few seconds left. But quickly, anymore information about Saddam Hussein's fate?
MIKLASZEWSKI: Not at all. Wild speculation. But U.S. officials insist they still don't know what happened when - after they bombed that site in western Baghdad earlier this week.
COURIC: So, they haven't been able to confirm reports he was taken to Tikrit, and then Mosul, and then hopefully to Syria.
MIKLASZEWSKI: That - that's very unlikely considering the kind of U.S. forces that are arrayed up there.
COURIC: OK, Mik. Thanks.
[End of Excerpt]
Regards.
The full exchange went like this:
COURIC: Mik, we only have a few seconds left. But quickly, anymore information about Saddam Hussein's fate?
MIKLASZEWSKI: Not at all. Wild speculation. But U.S. officials insist they still don't know what happened when - after they bombed that site in western Baghdad earlier this week.
COURIC: "So, they haven't been able to confirm reports he was taken to Tikrit, and then Mosul, and then hopefully to Syria."
MIKLASZEWSKI: That - that's very unlikely considering the kind of U.S. forces that are arrayed up there.
COURIC: OK, Mik. Thanks.
[End of Excerpt]
Interesting, no? But, I haven't a clue. The link to the ABC "Note" site was from an earlier post on this thread, which you'll recall you pinged me to. So, I became aware of the "Note" site for the first time last night. It's sortof a Drudge type format; ie, news items posted from around the world(?) without discussion(at least I didn't notice any message board). They could have just as easily called it ABC "Blog"? Curious. BTW, as you've noticed, they apparently don't archive their daily fare(at least not for public consumption), so anything they post there is gone with the wind unless its captured on sites such as FR.
ABC et al couldn't have had anything to do with this.
Har! Yeah, I noticed the fill-in-the-blanks "reporting" format. Entertaining wasn't it? These guys/gals are pretty good at spoofing their own it seems. Gotta wonder how long ABC will tolerate their foolishness.
...any thoughts?
Well, none that amount to anything, but being keenly aware of their fiscal problems, I'd say it's possibly a plan to increase their web presence in hopes of improving their overall share of the shrinking audience for network news(?). And doing it in such a way as to create a chuckle or two amongst their detractors(that's us) ;^). It that's the case, they overlook the obvious: Dump Petah and the rest of the head-in-the-clouds nanny state cheerleaders.
((shrug))IOW, beats me. I have trouble believing the muckity mucks at ABC are as clueless as they appear to be(to us at least), but it's possible. I have a suspicion the networks are maybe being played for suckers by the Madison Avenue types; ie, "We prefer warm and fuzzies as a backdrop for our products"? The "I'm from Washington and I'm here to help" makes way too many people feel really giddy. You know the type.
Well, soup's on; gotta run...
FGS
The Note is run by Mark Helperin who is also Political Director of ABC.
He is also a contributor to WSJ.
Don't know when he joined ABC but he is definitely one of the good guys who wrote a brilliant WSJ piece during the first Gulf War urging that we take Baghdad.
Other facts: he's a novelist, a vet of Israeli army and once publicly apologized for not fighting in 'nam.
OK, Mr.G.
Your word's good as gold.
"Don't know when he joined ABC but he is definitely one of the good guys who wrote a brilliant WSJ piece during the first Gulf War urging that we take Baghdad."
Interesting.
Obviously pro-America & "conservative" looking from the outside looking in.
"Other facts: he's a novelist, a vet of Israeli army and once publicly apologized for not fighting in 'nam."
Quite a resume'.
Just begs one question, why's he in bed with ABC?
I can't imagine him being to long lived given the C&P above, assuming [that] was his work?
One would think one or more of ABC's [numerous] Liberal-Socialists must have this guy in their sights for whacking.
This has to be more than just a hit on an ABC competitor by this Mr.Halperin.
There's something more going on there, or, at least that was the feeling I came away with after my visit.
When's the last time anyone read such honesty in the print media lately; nevermind, coming from an ABC property.
Truly stumped.
...I keep thinking motive-motive-motive.
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